Aaah Scribe... Christchurch is so much fun! I love Christchurch.
Ok so last time I posted I was like - just going to jump out of an aeroplane tomorrow! and then I absolutely could not sleep I was so excited and nervous and excited and having dreams about being planted and becoming a cool tree and then waking up in excitement. Terrible sleep! But then I woke for real, called the Skydive lady - and she said I couldn't skydive coz of the rain. and when I bothered to look out the window - RAIN! I was so bummed..... What an anticlimax! Kaikoura is beautiful - but not exciting and there is not much to do in the rain so we decided to jump straight in the car and head for Christchurch! We had Scribe on the CD player and we were pretty excited - although it got very old very quickly when I accidently went around Christchurch, we had to take some tunnel thing to Lyttleton and then go backwards into Christchurch - but didn't matter coz eventually we got to Christchurch! Was not as damaged as i feared it would be - a lot of scaffolding around and stuff - but the actual city was okay. And by okay i mean absolutely beautiful! We just kinda parked the car and walked for a bit, saw the Cathedral and the old architecture and the city was amazing - except for the shopping - which was not so amazing!
We decided to book our dinner on a tram for Friday night - so I called and booked and hten we looked for a hostel to stay - tried like 4 and finally got in to one callled Dorset House - which is like this massive old house with gardens and everything. So we turn up and guess who is just checking in herself? Llior! Which is this absolutely fantastic Welsh girl that we met in Rotorua when we went rafting and she braved the sledging! It was such a surprise coz we had loved her but then couldn't find her on facebook, so to randomly meet up in Christchurch was fantastic.
So we lug our bags up this old stiarcase and get to the room to change for dinner. Another hostel, and yet another shower I couldn't use... and then I couldn't find anything to wear, so i ripped everything outta my suitcase, cursing and chucking stuff around, in a sick of living outta a suitcase kinda way. Felt much better but then got angry again coz I had to clean my mess! haha oops
Dinner on a tram - or, as I prefer to call it, "Date Night" - the tram was couples, celebrating anniversaries and weddings. The fake candle on our table was a nice touch - super romantic!. Was bizarre and hilarious - the host congratulated everyone individually as he did the rounds - me and Chrissy got a heartfelt "More drinks girls?" Was a great meal though, and a beautiful way to see the city as the tram did the whole loop track like 8 or 9 times.
Anyways after the tram we thought we would head to Sol Square for one drink.... so we got changed and found a taxi and get to Sol Square and it is amazing. I feel in love with Christchurch the minute I saw Sol Square - we headed to some little bar at first and then off to Minx for cocktails. - oh and turns out our hotel for the last couple of days we are in New Zealand is directly above Minx! Best hotel ever!
Ok so at Minx we ordered these cocktails called "Wow" apparently they are so amazing they cannot tell you whats in them... so the guy makes them for us and WOW - it actually makes you say wow coz it is so amazing! It was like strawberrys and amazing and vanilla maybe all mixed together.... so our one drink turned into three cocktails - but they were amazing cocktails and we did meet this guy who said he would take us to party on Monday in Christchurch - so was an evening well spent - coz its hard to find people to party with on a Monday night!
So saturday was the day me and Chrissy were going to get an early start and devote the whole day to exploring Christchurch (aka. finding shops in Christchurch). We walked down the street off Dorset and stopped for breakfast, at 11.30. So plan A failed, but it was the most amazing breakfast ever.
After that we headed for a tattoo shop to get inked! Well Chrissy anyway, totally bummed coz I really want a second tattoo, but I coudn't decide what I wanted so I refrained from getting one and just sat and watched Chrissy in pain! The artist was really nice, and an amazing artist, but kinda slow, so two hours later, Chrissy left the shop in pain but with a beautiful new tattoo, and I left the shop not in pain and wishing I was...
After that we did some shopping, so we got in a taxi and asked him to drive us to the biggest mall in Christchurch. HE got the wrong one coz we ended up at a mall with only one level! Chrissy and I thought that we only had half a map for a bit, must of made people laugh coz we were very confused. Anyways after that failure we got another taxi to a slightly bigger mall and did a fair bit of shopping before heading back to Dorset House. Where we meet up with Llior and arranged to go see a NZ band who were playing a free gig at Dux de Lux!
Anyways, we were so excited, because aside from Maddy and Llior (both fantastic girls we met in Rotorua), we have not really made friends with any girls in NZ! Girls just don't seem to like us! And, as successful as the date in the tram was, it was great to have another girl for our girls night out! So, us three girls start walking to this gig, in hopes of finding a taxi (didn't happen), and just partied on - the bands were not really my usual thing, but the support act, Bellusira, and the main act, These Four Walls, were both really really good! Us three girls danced and swayed and shook it like maniacs - probably looked funny considering the type of music they were playing but we had a ball!
After that I was like, Sol Square!!! Llior had never been so we swapped numbers with the band coz they wanted to meet us there and headed to Sol Sq, which was even more amazing than the night before. We shouted Llior a Wow cocktail - she described it perfectly as "Its like the pink panther is dancing and F***ing in my mouth at the same time" <--- it really was that good! Anyways a lot more dancing followed, some guys from Bellusira and These Four Walls joined us at the Fish and Chip shop, (oh and turns out Bellusira are doing a show in Canberra in November! They are from Melbourne btw, so we will go to that! Yay) and we danced like absolute idiots, only stopping every couple of minutes to shout out our love of Christchurch! Sensibly, we called it a night at about 2:30 (sensibly is not usually a saturday night word, but we did have a 10 o'clock flight). SaId good bye to the fantastic Llior (who will be in Sydney when we are so partying in one week! Woot!) and slept for a couple of hours before we had to wake up and get to the airport. The last minute packing was a nightmare - coz we only bought carry on with us to Auckland and left the rest in the car.
Flight was the worst flight of my life! I usually don't get hung over, but the combination of a big night out, no sleep and the stupid aeroplane did not agree with me! and then, when we went to collect our luggage, we waited half an hour at the carousel, the same bags doing the loop in front of us until no bags were left... and I was like, OMG, my hair straightener is in my bag - and my bag might be in Wellington! so i was like freaking out about the potential loss of my hair straightener, when finally we asked the grumpy airport man and our bags came out! What a relief!
Then just headed to Auckland, had some lunch, last minute essential costume shopping and about to go get ready for Halloween! Woot! We might have missed the actual party, but Christchurch was amazing and tonight should be even better!
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